Category: Member news

Since 2001, the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI), held annually in Victoria, B.C., Canada, has been an annual gathering of technologists, scholars, librarians, graduate and undergraduate students…and editors. For the past three years, Jennifer Stertzer and I, joined this year by Erica Cavanaugh (George Washington Financial Papers Project), have offered […]

The Association for Documentary Editing announces the graduation speaker for the 45th Institute for the Editing of Historical Documents to be held 31 July – 4 August 2016 in New Orleans, Louisiana. The graduation speaker will be Esther Katz. Esther Katz is Editor and Director of the Margaret Sanger Papers […]

The Association for Documentary Editing is pleased to announce the resident faculty for the 45th Institute for the Editing of Historical Documents to be held 31 July–4 August 2016 in New Orleans, Louisiana. The resident faculty will include Cathy Moran Hajo, Jennifer Stertzer, Amanda Gailey, and Bob Karachuk. Cathy Moran […]

David Rogers Chesnutt, 74, died of throat cancer at home in Hardwick, Vermont on December 15, 2014. Born in Athens, AL in 1940, the son of Thomas Brice Chesnutt and Lena (Moss) Chesnutt, he earned degrees from the University of Alabama, ’62, Auburn University, ’67, and the University of Georgia, […]

The Papers of the Revolutionary Era Pinckney Statesmen is delighted to announce that Robert Karachuk has accepted our offer to join our staff as Associate Editor, beginning officially July 1, 2014, but deferring his arrival in South Carolina until August 4 after the conclusion of the Institute for the Editing, […]

The Emma Goldman Papers will receive the 2014 Philip M. Hamer and Elizabeth Hamer Kegan Award. The Hamer-Kegan Award is given by the Society of American Archivists Foundation in recognition of an archivist, editor, group of individuals, or institution that has increased public awareness of a specific body of documents […]

Thanks to Ann D. Gordon’s suggestions, the Organization of American Historians Committee on Part-Time, Adjunct, and Contingent Employment revised its standards to include non-teaching positions, such as editing. These changes were recently approved by the OAH Council and will appear on its website soon, but in the meantime, here is […]

The Washington Post reported that the Abraham Lincoln Papers might be forced to cease its search for Lincoln documents at the National Archives, due to funding shortages. The article focuses on the impact that the funding shortage will have on the Lincoln Papers’ Washington team, headed by Assistant Editor David […]